Rhode Island Welcome Back program helps foreign-trained medical professionals work toward licenses in U.S.

July 11, 2011Barbara Muhitch

Originally published in the Providence Journal.

PROVIDENCE — The rural hospital in Colombia where Dr. Ericka Olivera worked was so poor that patients often had to bring their own medical supplies. There was no x-ray machine or CT scanner. Sometimes, she recalls, “there wasn’t enough gas for the ambulance to bring a patient to a larger hospital.” (Read full article)